23C3 - day 2 and 3

Friday, December 29. 2006, 23:45
My favorite talk yesterday was done by Werner Pieper, which was mainly a collection of anecdotes about him being a former drug-dealer. He presented some interesting thoughts and experiences about trust in the illegal world. He also had some interesting stories about piracy-prints.

Today, I watched a talk about TPM and MacOS, which led to a very angry reply at the end by Rüdiger Weiss (who did a lot of work and interesting talks about trusted computing in the past years), sadly there wasn't any time left. Also about DRM, later this day there was a sadly very rarely visited talk by Seth Schoen from the EFF about television standards and the DRM-discussion in the DVB-group (DVB is the european digital video standard). Very detailed information, also many things I didn't know, for example that the industry plans to implement devices that only work in certain areas (by GPS-modules) or in a specific household. Most people seemed to have attended the talk by their »popstar« (Lawrence Lessig), who was placed in the same time slot.

Beside that, I sat some time at the CAcert-booth, helping them assuring visitors. Had some nice talks there and had the feeling that CAcert is really getting forward these days. For example I didn't know till now that Indymedia is using CAcert for their open posting.

Beside that, some people asked me about my desktop-background, it's from an anti-drm/itunes-campagne by the free software foundation and you can find it here.

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Hey Hanno,
can you elaborate a bit about the "TPM and MacOS" talk and the angry reply?

TIA, meax
#1 Anonymous on 2006-12-30 01:35
ok, not needed anymore:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/83057
#2 meax on 2006-12-30 17:25
can you eleborate on the interesting trust issues in the "illegal" world.
#3 anonymous on 2006-12-31 21:50
Do you know if there's a video of Werners talk at 23c3? I can't find it here: http://debian.tu-bs.de/mirror/ccc/23C3-mitschnitte/
#4 Anonymous on 2007-01-03 19:30
By the way. You can find better quality-versions of the graphic on Flickr too. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregoryh/259798528/in/pool-defectivebydesign/
#5 Stefan Horning (Link) on 2007-01-04 23:01

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